[419:3] He has spent all his life in letting down buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.—Lady Holland's Memoir of Sydney Smith, vol. i. p. 259.

[420:1] See Bishop Berkeley, page [312].

[420:2] See Thomson, page [356].

[421:1] It was Cowper who gave this now common name to the mignonette.

[421:2]

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung;

Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.

Heber: Palestine.

So that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was in building.—1 Kings vi. 7.

[422:1] Write the vision, and make it plain, upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.—Habakkuk ii. 2.